Christina Wright

Christina Wright-profile

Lecturer

Centre for Academic English and Skills

Institute of Arts and Humanities

Contact Details

email: c.wright@worc.ac.uk
tel: 01905 855241

Christina has extensive and varied experience in English language teaching and management, having worked in the ELT sectors in Spain, Japan and the UK prior to joining the University in 2002, where she now specialises in academic writing and EAP in the Centre for Academic English and Skills. She holds the Trinity College Licentiate Diploma in TESOL (1997), and her research interest for her MA Applied Linguistics/TESOL (2003) was ‘The perception of lexical items across different speech communities’. She has also been a member of the English Language Studies team in the School of Humanities since 2009, lecturing in areas such as the history of English and multilingualism.

Professional Bodies

Christina is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Publications

Wright, C. (2015) 'Chinese Students' Expectations of Language Learning in Western Culture', Worcester Journal of Learning and Teaching, Issue 10, July 2015

Wright, C. (2013) 'An investigation into Chinese expectations of learning and teaching techniques in Western culture', ¹ú²úÊÓƵ Learning and Teaching Conference, June 2013